Re: New Golf

--- /-\ndrew Savige wrote:
> It seems to me that some of the solutions are not quite correct, failing the
> test case:
> 
>  MD plus I
> 
> which should produce the answer MDI.
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the shortest solutions
> of szery, Sec and Jasper all fail this test case.
> 
> Falling back one stroke from 4e3 to 3999 remedies.

Found another. Ted Young's 107 fails this test case:

 MD minus I

which should emit:

 MCDXCIX

but Ted's entry emits:

 MMMCMXCIX

At least that's what I see.

As per szeryf, Sec and Jasper, changing 4e3 to 3999 remedies,
at the cost of a stroke.

Cheers,
/-\


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